Session 1: February 4 – March 11
Session 2: March 25 – April 29
Day/Time: Thursdays, 10:00am – 12:00pm ET
Level: Beginning – Advanced
Instructor: Claudia Olds Goldie

Course Description: Create ceramic animal sculpture inspired by the natural world, fable, parable, fairy tales, and dreams. Drawing inspiration from historical and contemporary sculpture, students will develop their own realistic, metaphorical, or hybrid animals using simple ceramic techniques including slab, pinching, coiling and modeling.

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Session 1: February 4 – March 11
Day/Time: Thursdays, 2:00 – 4:00PM ET
Level: Beginning - Advanced
Instructor: Deighton Abrams

Course Description: Books are one of the most intimate objects you can engage with. Design, stitch, and bind your own books use for sketching, journaling, or telling a narrative. We will look at a variety of different bookmaking techniques from the simple ‘zine to accordion books to “pop-up” books! No experience required.

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Session 2: March 25 – April 29
Day/Time: Thursdays, 2:00 – 4:00pm ET
Level: Beginning – Advanced
Instructor: Deighton Abrams

Course Description: This course will have students exploring new intuitive approaches to using the surface of ceramics as a canvas to tell stories either representational or abstract (or both). Through lectures and demonstrations, we will explore effective ways composing imagery on both sculptural and functional forms. A wide variety of techniques including brush work with underglaze, oxides, and slips as well as exploring

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Session 1: February 2 – March 9 (6 classes)
Session 2: March 23 – April 27 (6 classes)
Day/Time: Tuesdays, 1pm – 3pm ET
Level: Beginning – Advanced
Instructor: Paul Wisotzky

Course Description: This class will focus on creating circular, square and oval pots that start on the wheel. It will include altering, adding hand-built elements, subtracting material, and attention to surface both in the wet and leather hard stages. We’ll explore a variety of utilitarian pottery including cups and mugs, serving dishes and lidded vessels to name a few. We’ll spend time each session sharing work in progress discussing function,

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Session 1: February 2 – March 9 (6 classes)
Session 2: March 23 – April 27 (6 classes)
Day/Time: Tuesdays, 6:30 – 8:30pm ET
Level: Beginner - Advanced
Instructor: Anne Eder

Course Description: There are many ways to combine images and clay, but if you are curious about the magic and alchemy of using light sensitive emulsions, this may intrigue you. This class, led by instructor Anne Eder, will be a guided exploration into using light sensitive materials to transfer images onto and into clay bodies. Students will begin by making clay tiles for testing, and over the six-week course will investigate photographic printing processes such as cyanotype, gum bichromate, and liquid emulsions. Whether you are coming from a clay background or a photographic one, or just enjoy combining art and science, this class will dive deep into process and experimentation.

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Session 2: March 25 – April 29
Day/Time: Thursdays, 4:00pm – 6:00pm
Level: Beginning - Advanced
Instructor: Geoff Booras and Denny McLaughlin

Learn what happens to your pot or sculpture once it makes its way into the kiln! This course covers basic concepts behind different firing methods and kiln designs. If you are interested in taking an in-depth look at reduction, oxidation, and atmospheric firing principles, key temperatures, and techniques, then this is the class for you! Do you want to learn more about alternative firing methods? And what is a thermocouple, damper, spyhole, or bag wall anyway? Curious to know more? – Come stoke the flames of kiln wonderment in this new online course!

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Session 1: February 5 – March 12 (6 classes)
Day/Time: Fridays, 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Instructor: Dennis McLaughlin

Do you enjoy cooking with your own clay creations? This class offers challenges in designing and executing versatile cooking vessels that are both elegant and practical. Flameware is uniquely formulated for use directly on a stove top burner or in a preheated oven. Careful attention will be made in emphasizing design elements that bring together form and function. The class projects

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Dates: February 1 – April 19 (12 classes)
Day/Time: Mondays, 6:30pm – 9:30pm ET
Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Instructor: Matthew Katz assisted by Casey Zeng

Course Description: Demystify glaze and clay body chemistry via lectures and discussion led by instructor Matt Katz of Ceramic Materials Workshop, and hands-on experimentation facilitated by Ceramics Program staff member Casey Zeng. This class will cover technical information about glaze and clay formation. Along with technical information, students will learn how to effectively understand and work with their materials. Students will learn to use the Unity Molecular Formula of a glaze to substitute materials, how glaze

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Session 1: February 1 – March 8 (6 classes)
Session 2: March 22 – April 26 (6 classes)
Day/Times: Mondays, 6:30 – 8:30pm ET
Level: Beginner - Intermediate
Instructor: Ruth Easterbrook

Course Description: In this class, we will focus on the basics, first individually focusing on technique and developing skills. This will be a project-based class with guided exercises that will challenge and train your abilities. We will focus on pinch, coil, and slab for most of this class and begin applying ways of combining these to make more complicated vessels.

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Session 1: February 3 – March 10 (6 classes)
Session 2: March 24 – April 28(6 classes)
Day/Time: Wednesdays, 6:30 – 8:30pm ET
Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Instructor: Ruth Easterbrook

Course Description: Are you ready to test your hand-building skills to the next level? Building off established skills we will work on craft, form, and exploring some of the possibilities of combining hand-building techniques. These projects will be longer and take more patience and planning to follow through. I will share and lead conversations looking at historical and contemporary pots to learn from and inspire.

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Session 2: February 1 - March 12 (6 weeks)
Session 2: March 22 - April 30 (6 weeks)
Day/Time: N/A
Level: Independent - Advanced
Instructor: N/A

Course Description: Independent Studio at Home is intended for participants in the Boston area who are not enrolling in Spring 2021 online Ceramics Program course, but would like to access bisque and/or glaze-firing opportunities at the Ceramics Program. This option includes firing and studio glazes for up to 10,000 cubic inches of bisque and/or glaze work for the 6-week session. Cubic inches will be tracked for bisque and glaze firings, and cubic inch totals in excess of 10,000 cubic inches will be billed to you at 3 cents per cubic inch. We are offering electric kiln firing up to cone 6, and cone 10 gas reduction and soda vapor firings. Other firing temperatures can be arranged. A Google Sheets signup form and detailed instructions for scheduling greenware drop off and glaze sessions will be emailed at the start of the semester. ... Read more about Independent Studio at Home

Session 2: March 26 – April 30 (6 classes)
Day/Time: Fridays, 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Level: Intermediate – Advanced
Instructor: Dennis McLaughlin

Let’s think globally as we seek inspiration for both form and function from potters in the last 10,000 years! Each class will be spent examining the functional pottery made during a different time period and cultures from around the globe. Objects from the online collections of the Harvard Art Museums and Museums of Science and Culture will inspire demonstrations both on

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Session 1: February 2 – March 9 (6 classes)
Session 1: March 23 – April 27 (6 classes)
Day/Time: Tuesdays, 2:00 – 4:00pm ET
Level: Beginning - Advanced
Instructor: Deighton Abrams

Course Description: Clay’s responsiveness to touch and plasticity makes it the ideal medium to mimic and replicate what we can see with our eyes.  Through lectures and demonstrations, we will discuss a variety of techniques on developing individual creative approaches that students will then use to make a small body of work. Demonstrations will cover several technical considerations in making complex sculptural works with extra attention paid to making work in the home and transporting to the Harvard or your local studio for firing.

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Session 1: February 3 – March 10 (6 classes)
Session 2: March 24 – April 28 (6 classes)
Level: Beginning - Intermediate
Day/Time: Wednesdays, 6:30pm – 8:30pm ET
Instructor: Anne Eder

Course Description: Get outdoors with this introduction to plant-based printing processes that use light and common plant materials obtained from the backyard, a nearby park, or even the grocery! This class is an introduction to plant-based printing processes that use light and common plant materials! It will cover anthotypes, chlorophyll printing, and other plant-based printing methods. We will meet via online platform once a week for demonstrations and students will then take what they have learned and complete that week’s assignment, returning for troubleshooting, critique and a new demo each week. Most items needed to take this course should be easily obtainable from the backyard, a nearby park, or even the grocery.

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Session 2: March 25 – April 29 (6 classes)
Day/Time: Thursdays, 6:30pm – 8:30pm ET
Level: Intermediate – Advanced
Instructor: Ann Eder

Course Description: Take your plant-based printing processes to the next level with this follow up course to the Plant-based Printing Intro class! Explore further the possibilities of printing with plants and using chemistry found in common household items. We will investigate the infinitely variable lumen and phytogram processes combined with non-traditional applications of chemistry you can make at home, as well as finding ways to take anthotypes and chlorophyll printing forward. We will meet via online

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Session 1: February 1 - March 12

Day/Time: N/A

Level: Beginning – Advanced

Instructor: Multiple

The Harvard Ceramics Program has long collaborated with museums at Harvard in support of scholarly research of ceramic objects. This course offers participants the opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of historic ceramic objects from across the globe via six lectures that you can review at your own pace. Each lecture features teams of conservators, curators, conservation scientists and/or scholars from museums at Harvard and beyond discussing their research of ceramic objects within the collection. With your registration, you will receive access to a Harvard Google Classroom with all six recordings for the duration of the semester plus 30 additional days.

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Session 1: February 4, 11, 18 (3 classes)
Day/Time: Thursdays, 1pm - 3pm ET
Level: Beginning - Advanced
Instructor: Ben Eberle

Course Description: In the past year, artists have faced being isolated from their community studios and some are beginning to think about moving from making art on the kitchen table to something a bit more permanent - a home studio. In this 3-part mini-course, studio potter Ben Eberle will walk us through setting up a home studio. Topics to be discussed will include purchasing of equipment and furniture, sink use (or what to do if there is no sink access), electric kiln installation and simple repairs

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Session 2: March 23 – April 27 (6 classes)
Day/Time: Tuesdays, 6:30 – 8:30pm ET
Level: Intermediate – Advanced
Instructor: Stephanie Young

Course Description: Join Stephanie Young of Calmwater Designs for an in-depth study of her carving techniques on porcelain and the inspiration behind her iconic Art Nouveau style. Surface treatments using color including slips, underglazes and glaze will be explored. Young is full-time studio artist whose work is highly revered and collected. Don’t miss this opportunity to study with an artist at the top of her field!

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Session 2: March 23 – April 27
Days/Times: Tuesdays, 6:30 – 8:30pm (ET)
Level: Beginner – Advanced
Instructor: Marek Jacisin

Course Description: From our sketchbook to the wall, this class will focus on pattern design and the tools needed to make tile molds at home with an emphasis towards the home. Projects will include backsplashes, accent walls and garden pavers. Each week there will be a demonstration of making a tile with molds constructed with foam and simple tools. For those students with access to clay, demonstrations of tile production with clay will assist the student in creating tiles at home. Students who do not have access to clay will benefit from observing the demonstrations and will have the tools to produce tiles once back in the studio.

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Session 2: March 22 – April 26 (6 classes)
Day/Time: Mondays, 10:00am – 12:00pm
Instructor: Steve Murphy

Course Description: For those with access to a pottery wheel at home or those happy to observe, this class for intermediate to advanced potters will explore size, form, refinement and surface. The instructor will provide demonstrations based on what forms and/or techniques students would like to improve upon during this class.

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